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SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA: A LINKAGE Nurudeen Ayinde nuruayinde4u@gmail.com, 07069657118 Initially, through the history of human society, there was nothing known as private property. There was no rich and no poor. This historical epoch has been variously described as primitive communalism, stateless society etc. Also, considering the dynamic nature of human beings, though, one can argue that even at this particular historical point, man did not possess equal ability or attitude to work. However, there was no bosses or  superiors and no servants as the case may be. Man collectively engaged in the struggle to tap from nature for survival. Interestingly, it may be true that life at this period in history was poor and unfavourable, but this was never because man was inherently brutish nor wicked as some classical thinkers like Thomas Hobbes put it, but because man's capacity to effectively deal with nature was rudimentary. Despite this, however, men woul...

In response to a submission by an analyst that all developmental theories that have been practised and adopted in Nigeria were to no avail.    That's not totally correct because the statement is too broad and needs to be backed by facts and evidences on ALL the theories of economic development,the ones Nigeria has practised,the ones that worked, the ones that didn't work and the reasons why they didn't work.  I make bold to say Nigeria has not practised all developmental theories there are because there are developmental theories  as there are developmental economists. In other words,the number of developmental theories is equal to the number of developmental economists.  That said,Nigeria only practised a minute part of the gamut of developmental theories in existence. THE FACT is that developmental policies which ensue from developmental theories should be peculiar to the idiosyncrasies of the nation in question,this brings us to the reasons why the economi...